Trump-linked SPAC to pay $18m fine to SEC over “material misrepresentations”

Digital World Acquisition Co., a blank-check company, has found itself entangled in a web of legal trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission over its proposed merger with media giant Trump Media and Technology Group. The SEC’s investigation revealed that DWAC had misled investors and failed to disclose crucial information...

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Twice-convicted fraudster charged by SEC for alleged $38M Ponzi-like scheme

A fraudster who has been convicted twice before has been charged by the SEC for alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar Ponzi-like scheme. The regulator says that Eliyahu Weinstein, Aryeh L. Bromberg, Joel L. Wittels, Richard M. Curry, Christopher J. Anderson and Alaa Mohamed Hattab defrauded a total of $38 million...

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Investment advisor numbers escalate, ideas for stronger oversight remain stuck

More than a decade ago, something extraordinary happened at a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee. One witness pretty much torpedoed legislation that had been written by the panel’s chair. The pending bill would have established a self-regulatory organization to provide oversight of investment advisors. That meant an entity...

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Understanding WhatsApp supervision

Regulatory requirements around retaining and supervising communications across financial services firms have become more stringent, in particular after an unusually high volume of business-related communications on WhatsApp was uncovered. Regulators have put users of this popular platform on high alert, while simultaneously monitoring whether firms are adhering to recent...

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